Sweatpants

I tele'd to Edgeville after getting a load of Zammy wines and found the bank carpeted with flowers. Oh, while I was tele grabbing the wine, a guy runs in and asks me not to take one for 5 seconds. I agree, seeing that he's going to try grabbing it with his hands (bad idea as Zamorak hates people touching his booze). He touches the wine and gets flamed by Zamorak and attacked by monks. He does this several times until his health is pretty low. I think it was because he wore full Guthans, but it could be for anything. I really hoped he would die and I could grab his stuff.

One thing I didn't mention in the last entry. I didn't want to recharge my crystal bows yet, so I fletched 300 iron arrows to shoot at blue dragons. While I was chopping down trees, a spirit appeared and attacked me with her pointed stick. I ran behind a tree and waited for her to go away. I'd gotten my logs fletched and decided to kill the spirit since she would chase me. I'm glad I did because she dropped a rune axe.

Onto today's skilling. I ranged more blue dragons and did recharge my crystal bows again. I had to hop to world 124 as bots had taken over on 77. For the few days I was there, I got 555 hides which I made into dhide bodies and alched for 1M+, and enough dragon bones to get 73 prayer using the Ectofuntus.



I have Tears of Guthix on Saturday and that'll get me over 1M xp in prayer. So, tomorrow I'm grabbing the herbs, nests and logs my kingdom has gathered for me. I hurriedly stocked up on some seconds and will need to get more cowhides, too.

I built those rooms on the second floor of my PoH this afternoon. My house is relatively complete, only needing upgrades now and again as my construction level rises and my gold repository increases.

Quote of the Night: (fixed now)
"Nothing says "guilty" like running from the cops, dumbass." Nick Stokes, CSI

Pants On Fire

I haven't figured this out after 3 years of playing. Why do people lie about their skill levels? It invariably happens at places where players are thick on the ground, such as Karamja docks on any F2P world or Catherby in P2P, someone will ask, "Lvls?" They may even get creative, like those at any fishing spot may say, "<>{ lvls" Of course, this isn't just about fishing, but any place where any skill is heavily trained. When the question is asked, people will reply and, naturally, there will be a liar or two in crowd of pseudo-anonymity. The liars want to impress those around them, which can happen, but oh beware should someone in the crowd check you up on the High Scores. If you're caught lying, you will be belittled, insulted and spammed.

When I was a young RS player, I was impressed when someone said they had a very high skill. Now, I am jaded. If I believe someone is lying about a skill level, I check and call them out if I discover the truth. I have been called a liar on a few occasions when I stated a skill level. Once was at Catherby where fishing levels were being shouted out and I tossed my 99 out there amongst the crowd. When the person argued about it, I stepped out of the crowd on the shoreline and displayed my CoA and the emote as proof. Another time, I was pickpocketing for seeds in Draynor village and got asked my thieving level. I replied, "85" and was rude informed, not only that I was a liar, but that I should be mugging heros in Ardougne instead. I told the person that heros don't have seeds on them and suggested they look me up on the High Scores.

With that little rant out of the way, here's what I did today.

I hit the ogre dungeon again, happily armed with 2 crystal bows. These bows have changed my outlook on ranging because they require no arrows. I noticed a surgence of blue dragon bots or farmers, similar to the green dragon bots/farmers. Anyway, I think I gathered enough bones to get 73 prayer tomorrow. I'm using the Ectofuntus and thanks to Cougarsrule 9 for the 300+ empty buckets. I got another clue scroll and chased it down. I had coordinates that led behind the magic axe shack by the Ardougne lever aka PKers' Paradise. With the encouragement and taunting of cj andrews and Kieyanar (who was demanding a Kitt Fox PKing party :P), I walked myself up to level 56 Wildy and got the clue. A Zammy mage appeared, so I threw out my magic protect prayer and went Bruce Lee on his ass. After his death, I dug again and I got a casket, then cautiously walked back to level 20 where I could teleport to Lumbridge. I saw someone at the Rogue's Castle; she was also on a clue and I asked for peace.


I've decided to go ahead with building more rooms to my house. These room will be: 2 combat rooms (1 boxing ring and 1 balance beam) and a games room. They will be in a U shape around the garden portal. After I get my prayer tomorrow, I'll work on getting the items for construction.

Hiding Behind Stuff

Things went very well today. I was able to range blue dragons in the ogre dungeon without much trouble. There was a player using the first safe spot as you enter, so I moved to my favorite spot, behind a corpse. The player I hadn't seen after 2 runs, so I took her spot. She returned and I offered to leave after killing the dragons I was ranging. She politely declined and world hopped with her friend. I did get 1 clue scroll that was fairly easy for a level 3. I got 4 clues in total and these items were the prizes:

Sold the Saradomin kite for 450k on forums. I mistakenly asked for a higher price because I went by Zybez' pricing guide.

The second player showed up tonight at the same spot. I wanted my corpse spot, but the dragon wouldn't turn away so I could run by safely. Again, I offered to move after my kill and, again, this player said it was okay and he found another spot. I am so happy school is going on because it makes it easier to train. I noticed more people were running by me in the dungeon, so I decided to leave for tonight. I checked my range XP and found I was merely 6k from a level. I hurriedly teleported to the Ectofuntus and jumped into a crypt to kill 16 experiments. I managed to get a couple to myself long enough to get 76 range.

Thanks to the frog prince for phr33 cl0thez pl0x

Also, I'd popped up to my house and use all those dragon bones on my gilded altar.


Earlier in the afternoon, I joined Merch's chat and asked if anyone wanted to come see the dagannoth kings with me. Mking said he would go, but only after asking if I would be killing them. I told everyone I only want to unlock the music on my RS music list. I quickly read up on what I would need to get inside - another person for standing on a couple of pressure plates and range or magic to blast a barrier. I brought 1 casting of water strike, canfident my 88 magic would carry the spell. Mking and I made it inside and were harassed by wasakai - seal-like creatures with magic attacks. I found the barrierS, note plural spelling. I broke through one on the right side, then told Mking we were stuck. I used up my prayer and slapped one of those wasakai around until my prayer ran out. I spawned in Camelot. Mking appeared behind me as he'd tele'd and offered a trade. WTF? I didn't drop anything and was at full health, prayer and stats.

Mking trades me my bones and I buried them.

I think I've figured a better second floor plan for my house. I'll build 2 combat rooms, one with a boxing ring and the other with a balance beam, and a games room. They'll wrap around my portal garden in a U shape. Of course, this is after getting my prayer up. I also had to get my crystal bow recharged and plunked down the cash for a second bow. I see magic longbows in my future.

One Word Shall Rule Them All

One syllable with four letters, beginning with a soft fah and ending with a hard kuh: Fuck. That's how my RS day has been. I began the day normally, checking my farming patches and planting where I could. I excitedly made a list of the supplies I'd need to make 2 formal gardens, a games and combat room in my PoH. Before I spent any money on supplies, I tele'd to Yanille via a tele tab and headed upstairs to full out the second floor. I right click on the empty doorway in my second quest hall and choose Build: Formal Garden.

"This room can only be built on the ground floor."

Fuck.

Fine. No gardens then. I decide to build the combat room instead. I plunk it down and realize there is no door towards the center of the house. I scrap it and try again, keeping an eye on the room outline that I can barely see due to the giant gables of my rooftop. There's the door, so I build it and ... what? The damned weapons rack looks like a door. Double Fuck. For the last time, I rip out the room and reposition it. Great, there's a door! I walk in and click to build the games room.

"This room does not have enough stability to be built."

Ffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck! A long, drawn-out sound like Marlon Brando screaming for Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire. I can build this same fucking layout in Sims and Sims 2 without this fucking "stability" issue. Building on top of a garden isn't a problem in those games, so wtf is the deal?

Pissed, I throw out my ideas of new rooms and figure to just work on the shit that I already have. I'm not having house parties, so why do I care what other people think? I plumped up a few things: hanging the stuffed shark on the wall of my skill hall, planting magic trees by my house portal and making adjustments to my study. I need more levels to build what I want, but that will come in time. I did get to the point where I wanted to rip out everything and start over. I didn't and settled for turning off chats and go on a few suicide missions.

Mainly, I wanted to get the mini game music from red to green. I stopped first at skeletal wyverns and died in a few minutes. Next, I visited the god wars dungeon after being nagged by a dying knight to take a letter to Sir Tiffy. Jesus dude, try Postie Pete! I ran around down there with prayer on and discovered I needed a rope, a mithril or better crossbow and grapple and a hammer to get inside any of the god rooms. Thirdly, fishing trawler. I brought swamp paste, bailing buckets and rope in case Murphy demanded supplies before casting off the docks. The ship went down and I swam to shore by the Tower of Life. I ran to the Rogue's Den and completed the maze (thanks to a map on Zybez). I got rogue's gloves, so I may try for the rest of the outfit. Then Tarn Raznolor got a visit, or at least the vestibule of his maze did. Where is the roaming banker anyway? Lastly was barrows. I read through the crumbling tome and tried to talk to the Creepy Old Guy before digging into the middle mound. I died again; what a surprise.

With that out of the way, I grudgingly suited up to kill baby blue dragons for their bones. I hopped twice because others were there, then gave up. The ogre dungeon might be good since school is in session in most of the world, so I headed there and set up ranging blue dragons. Fuck, the lag - normally I don't bitch about it because it happens to everyone - was horrible. Nothing long though, just baby lags of 2-5 seconds which is long enough for a monster respawn and I would repeatedly log out and log in again. Switching worlds and country servers did not help. I even rebooted my computer to no avail. I did manage to get this screenie before calling it quits to go eat.

Quick Update

A short update tonight. I got 73 hunter finally and 1M hunter XP. I'm a bit put out that I took off for Eman's party because I could've been finished hunting in the afternoon and gotten to working on prayer. Oh well.

I decided to add formal gardens, games and combat rooms to my PoH. I doubt I will ever have a dungeon or throne room.

2 "Clan" Events

Clan is in quotes because the chat channel I frequent isn't really a clan in the strictest definition. It began yesterday, probably from boredom and that Merch wasn't online to keep people on the straight and narrow. The brilliant idea: see the KBD. Yeah. Mkai you guys do that; I'll be over here not dying. Cougs used her Ring of Charos (a) to charm me into going with them. The them: Guildwars, Cougarsrule, Eman, Em and I don't know who else. We met at the Jolly Boar Inn in Varrock and Guild led us to the lesser demon area. Halfway there, we got split up - I was with Guild at the red dragons and Cougs lead everyone else to the green dragons south of the lava maze. Finally, we met up the the lessers on the west side of the maze. We all went down the ladder, then flipped the level. Confusing as there was no organization, so we all got fried except for Em iirc.

This time, we planned. Bring anti dragon shields people. I tele'd to Edgeville to get the extra 2 points in prayer and grabbed a few sets of monk robes. Jolly Boar Inn again and this time I'm leading the train! Gulp. We (same people as before with the addition of Pen Knee) took the scenic route through the forest and some green dragons. Great, down the ladder again and we pretty much used the lever at one time instead of individually. Cougs ran for the treasure chests, or so she told us over chat, and when I ran to face the KBD, there were 2 others there. Seems everyone else had died already. Following Em's lead, I'd tossed up protection from magic prayer before pulling the lever. I died soon and ended up in front of the gates to Camelot (what a silly place). I'd lost one of my anti dragon shields.

I'm on the left, Em (I think) is at the top and someone else on the bottom.

Today, I'd hoped to get a farming level and struggle towards 1m hunter XP. I got 85 farming.


The other big thing: Eman. He asked if I had a wild pie. Yeah I had 2 in case someone needed 1 for the Varrock diary. We met at the farming plots at Catherby and I found out why he wanted the pie. He had 1 quest left to get the quest cape: Path of Glouphrie and he didn't have the slayer levels, so he wanted the pies which add +5 to slayer. To each his own, I guess, I would've just trained slayer. He wanted more pies because they only last a short time and the warped terrorbirds are pretty tough for an 86 combatant. I got 7 chompy birds (3 at once!), 7 bear meat and asked where Eman went. Cougs said he logged off to help his brother. Okay, I'll get the rabbit meat, too. Zach made a point about burning the pies even at level 99 cooking and suggested using the Lunar spell, Bake Pie. Sounds good. I switched over to lunar magic, tele'd to my house and made the pies. I freaked someone out at the bank in Yanille with the spell effect. Who uses Lunar magic that much anyway? Now, I have 7 wild pies which are eaten in 2 bites and they should last Eman through the killing of the terrorbirds.

Eman logged on again and I told him about the pies. We met in Falador and I gave him the pies plus some prayer potions, too, because he'd been bitching about needing some. He's off to do the quest and would keep us updated via the clan chat. I returned to hunting prickly kebbits and catching the stray impling that floated by me. Eman was doing okay, until he was in the sewer part where he had to run by warped terrorbirds and mutated tortoises to get to the actual birds to kill. He got lost, so I tried to guide him where to go, but I'd gotten lost there when I did the quest. I told him over chat about some landmarks to look for which apparently helped as he mentioned he'd found the boss monsters. Things went on as the Canting Away crew hurriedly threw on their "good" clothes for the cape party, found their way to Draynor village and waited to hear how he was doing. Eman said, "1 down" and we cheered for him. "2 down" and more cheering, myself chanting "go eman go eman go eman". I'd dressed out in my quest cape, elegant green blouse, Vyrewatch pants and boots, black flowers and even drug my cat, Slash, out of the bank.


The Old Man's tiny room is very small so I waited outside for Eman to get there. Most had brought gifts to celebrate. Myself, I dug out a black heraldic helm (h1) from my treasure chest and saved a spinach roll the Mysterious Old Man (MOM) gave me an hour earlier.

The congrats messages. Mine got fucked up.

Eman does his emoshun for us n00bs

Eman and I emote together.


Then, it was a conga line to Falador party room. We had some followers, we moved our asses to Reaver's house in Rimmington. There was a prayer race and my team lost. We had a free-for-all boxing match which Merch won. Reaver randomly dropped stuff outside and I got poison ivy seeds, an acorn and a ruby. After that, we played scavenger hunt. I won by trading a spade to Reaver and got a monkfish. I had to leave at that point because I'd eaten a lot of Twizzlers last night and I had the Hershey squirts.

Into Each Generation

My goal for today is accomplished - 73 slayer. After many hours of exchanging bronze dragons, sea snakes and kurasks for goblins, minotaurs and spiders, I finally got 3 assignments I sank into like a comfy sofa: 121 trolls, 145 fire giants and 123 fire giants. The trolls I killed were in the passage up from the way to the dwarf city, Keldagrim. There's a set of stairs, too, which I'll investigate tomorrow. Fire giants I always fight in the smokey well as I'm usually the only person there. Mostly, the smokey well is used for Desert Treasure questers and dust devil slayage. I did meet up with Mirette7 at the giants, but she was extremely pleasant to fight beside because we shared the 4 giants between ourselves. I buried the bones in the dungeon and eventually got a shade random, which I fought. I had 6 monks left and I wanted to conserve them for my slaying duty, so I tossed up protect from melee prayer. Mirette7 offered food, but I declined with a polite thanks.

The bonuses of today: 82 attack and 103 combat.


Lastly, here's the quote of the day from Merch Gwyar's chat channel, Canting Away:


XD

^Speaking of that, I'm going to look for some of the smilies I use and load up the emoticons.

Road Trip!!

After hearing about Merch's fiasco at the Wilderness agility course, found here, I decided to take a vacation from my day to wander the upper levels of the Gielinor map. I packed up a knife (to cut through webs), a full flask of tea (the Wildy is a dusty, dirty place) and a rope (just in case). I teleported to Trollheim because I wanted to use the shortcut there. I got lost and nearly ended up at God Wars! I found the right shortcut and took it. The walk to my first destination, the lava maze, grew long. I got a bit hungry because I hadn't eaten lunch yet, tea can only satisfy you so much and the maze is pretty long, so I opened the gate by some lesser demons and hopped down the ladder. At the bottom, I notice these pretty red spiders surrounding me. I saw the lever I was supposed to pull - the KBD's doorbell, I guess - and I did just that.

I appeared in a large cavern with lots of red dots on my mini map. This is loose change from scared adventurers. I heard the KBD behind me and before I could turn to give him a hearty hello, he made a toasty Kitt Fox sandwich. Ouch.


I showed up in front of Camelot's gate, none the worse for wear. My supplies were intact. I checked the kwuarm I have growing in Catherby, then tele'd to Varrock for another trip. I hadn't had a decent picture of the Chaos Elemental yet. It keeps exposing my film with its magic spells, but this time I used the digital camera that came with the tea flask to get this shot:

It wasn't happy about getting its picture taken and chased me around the rogue's castle until it grew tired.

Next, let me check out that volcano north of here. I walked briskly along the blackened earth, up hills and through gullies until I found lava floes. There were minor tremors as I explored, but nothing earth shattering happened. I took a chance and walked across the rickety bridge which spans the center of the volcano.


Feeling very brave now as I had seen no other players, I decided to see if I could get into the mage arena basement. I cautiously walked by the Ardougne lever, my eyes hawkishly watching the mini map for white dots. Wait, what? I'm here? I slashed at the 2 webs; it took a minute as my knife must've been dulled from carving out longbows. Okay, another lever. I pulled it and appeared in the basement. I spoke first with Kolodion, the man whom you must defeat to claim a god cape.


Next I spoke to Lundail, the rune shop owner, about adventurers that come here. I tried the sparkling pool, but it merely made my boots wet.


Well, I was done there. Time to head west to the agility arena and see what the fuss is all about. I've gone by the place many times on clue scrolls, but never stopped in. I had no idea what to do, so I followed what seemed logical to me at the time: keep right. I fell twice off the initial ledge. Over the ledge, through the pipe, swing, down the ladder (eek, skellies!), hop the lava and oh my god! I found the remains of Merch Gwyar's body! I wish I'd thought to bring my Guthix prayer book in order to say a few words to ease her rest.


I went around once and left, going west through the ice spiders, ice warriors and ice giants. I followed the fence for a bit until I saw a fenced in area to the south. I stepped toward it, noticed it was the area of lesser demons I'd visited earlier. I skipped passed them and found the runite rocks for F2P.


East of here is Red Dragon Island and my next stop. I still haven't seen anyone looking for a kill. I went through a gate after reading the appropriate Danger! sign. Oh, lookie: red dragons! There is one trapped on an island, but he would not stay still for a photo. I climbed up to the top of a hill and caught this lovely speciman:


It's close to time for my herbs to be done growing, so I headed in a southerly direction after getting around the lava protecting the red dragons. I knew I would run across some green dragons eventually and made the choice to get a snapshot or 2 of anyone hunting them. I found 3 such players (who may've been bots or real players, I don't know for certain). I even had time for a refreshing cuppa.


Mission accomplished! I returned to my walk, secure in the knowledge that Edgeville was somewhere to the south of me. I found the Zamorak mage and passed by an Abyssal runecrafter. A skeleton attacked me as I strolled by it. It got one last hit as I jumped the ditch, so I gave it a parting shot of my own:

Askillin' I Will Go

Yesterday was a blah day for RS. I did a bit of this and that and got 82 strength from fire giants which were a slayer task. Stupid Vannaka keeps giving me bronze dragons, sea snakes and stupid shit like that.



Today went better (so far) as I managed a hunter level without falling asleep. I have no clue why it makes me sleepy, but it does. I was coaxing prickly kebbits into getting their heads smashed by a large boulder held up with a flimsy stick. I tried red chinchompas before and did fall asleep. :P


I visited Miscellania and got my herbs and seeds. I id'ed and made potions, only finding that I fell 8k short of a level. Quickly, I ran through what herbs I had stocked (marrentil and toadflax) and the highest potion I could make with an easy-to-get second ingredient. Agility potions won out, so I went to the gnome stronghold and ripped the legs off 98 toads. Don't worry; the game tells me the poor toads will grow them back. XD


In the middle of my leg gathering, Mking asked me to help him with Monkey Madness - play escort through Zooknock's tunnel. Gulp. I agreed with no idea what to do. Oh in theory, I would run along side him, give him pots and food when needed. Yeah, well, it didn't work out that way. He died twice doing it with me. I feel bad even now and said as much after the second death. He told me it was no problem. Merch logged in hours later and things went slam-bam. She organized people and told me what I should be doing - I would run with Mking and play bodyguard as a monkey. Demsla came with us for a while and I learned you can block the monkey jail guards (gorilla greegrees work best). Demsla logged, so it was me, Merch and Mking. Cougarsrule asked to come along (I must've caught her on a bad day as I quite like her now. PS she has large ninja greegrees that I want). The four of us preped with pots and food. I had 88 purple sweets gathering dust in my bank, so I offered them to Mking since they boost energy by 10% and I think that's what helped the most. Mking was running in rune armor at 65 combat. >.< We made it in the end, with me relaying over Canting Away of our progress - we'd gotten ahead of Merch and Cougs who were supposed to be ahead of us and lure the monkeys. At Zooknock, Mking was distressed; he'd forgotten his gold bar. I said I would tele out, grab on from my bank and tele back. Great, he made the monkey amulet!

For run #2, it was just Merch, Mking and myself. Poor Merch; her computer lagged when she went down the ladder to the tunnel. I had to log as my computer was lagging from the antivirus scan. When I returned, the pair were talking the talisman from the baby monkey. I tried distracting the auntie monkey by asking her on a date, using my impressive gorilla bod to entice her away from the garden. She was a hard sell and gave me the brushoff. Now, to the temple. Mking made it fine, but the gorilla guards blocked me. I made it down, trying to recall what wall he's supposed to use the gold bar on. I checked on Zybez to comfirm it's the wall of flame. Mking mentioned he'd forgotten a ball of wool and Merch tele'd to get one. We made it again, only to have more distress - Mking forgot his monkey remains in the bank. >.< When he was enchanting his gold bar, I'd killed a zombie monkey that was attacking him and picked up its bones. What luck, I thought, and offered to trade. They aren't tradeable! Doh! Mking had to call it a night, so we split up by Zooknock. Merch and I didn't want to have Mking run that fucking tunnel for the umpteenth time, so we both tele'd to Karamja to see if a monkey corpse was tradeable. Sadly, it isn't and I got stuck with a dead monkey in my pack. I tried some ventriloquism with it until 5 people showed up out of nowhere, then dropped it because I'm sure they'd thought I was a total nutjob.

Tomorrow, more MM.

*cries pitiously*

A Simple Thanks

To those players who decided to fight the Zamorak mages, rangers and warriors along the ZMI altar short route yesterday and today:

Thanks.

Yesterday, I began the trek to leveling runecrafting. Really power-leveling tbh, which isn't easy when I normally make runes when I need them. I'd mined over 10k p ess and thought it might be enough for level 75, but it wasn't. I needed to mine another 2k or so. A bit of math here: I carried 3 pouches (small, medium, large) which gave me 41 p ess to craft. I used the Moonclan/Ourainia teleports, meaning I carried astrals and laws with me at all times. My equipment was a mud staff, black d hide body and chaps, mind helm, mind shield, boots of lightness, spottier cape and glory ammy. I gained an average of 700XP per run and kept my pouches fixed about every 1k ess used.

Double chaos is exciting! I sell them for tokkul


54 ess with all 4 pouches. w00tage!

For the other minor goal I have: hunter, prayer, slayer and smithing are left to get to 1M XP each. Smithing is very close. Prayer and hunter will take more time. I'm still on lunar magic (in case Merch gets talked into do DT soon), so I can use NPC Contact for slayer.

Stop! ZMI Time!

Yesterday and today, I mined pure essence for runecrafting. My goal amount was around 10k or whatever got me to level 79 mining. So, I ended up with 10k+ p ess banked and had to make a decision on what to craft with it. Should I stick with nature runes, which I do need as I only had 2.3k at the time, or risk it all using the new ZMI altar? Well, since I wanted the XP more than the runes, I gambled with the new altar.

Firstly, I traveled to Moonclan island and swapped my regular magic book for Lunar spells. Second, I grabbed my mud staff, pouches, tele runes (50 astral and 50 law), spottier cape, boots of lightness, seal of passage and 43 p ess. World 70, as of this post, is the ZMI altar world. If you want to train runecrafting with a ton of people, this is the place to go.

I started off at level 73 with about 96k XP to level 74 and 10k+ p ess to play with. When I logged off for tonight, I had just under 36k XP to level 74 and 7300+ p ess left. I had to run to the Abyss north of Edgeville to get my pouches repaired and keep making 43 runes per trip. The large pouch starts degrading after 1k ess or so. I'm hoping and praying this will be enough to get me to level 75, so I can use my giant pouch and runecraft at my leisure. I've never been a huge runecraft-for-XP fan; instead making rune as I needed them and trying to keep above the 2k mark for nats, laws and cosmics.